We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three … of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously … relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second treatment provided women with an unrestricted cash grant, but no …

of their unassisted competitors. We test this possibility using a two-stage randomized experiment in Kenya which …

employment in Kenya, and they play a central role in Kenya's economic growth. Women's ownership of formal SMEs is low, comprising … jointly by women and men. Analysis of survey data from 571 SMEs, and interviews with 14 corporate Buyers in Kenya, provide …Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) make up a large part of Kenya's economy, accounting for approximately 98 percent of …

typically protect against shocks in the male sphere of economic activity. Often overlooked are women, the particularities of … that it directly addresses women's risk and is sold in units that are commensurate with women's expenditure … Kenya. Twenty-four percent of previously subsidized households that received the novel contractual formulation purchased …

for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with higher education institutions, the dictatorship delivered training … programs aimed at fostering domestic skills. Our findings reveal these programs facilitated women's entry into the labor market … participation among women directly exposed during the dictatorship and their daughters raised in democracy. …

may explain why other similar studies found such programs to be more effective for women than for men. In particular for … younger women a key effect of the programs is to reduce or postpone pregnancies and to increase the attachment to the labor …

sector and address high levels of unemployment, particularly among women and the youth. This paper explores how one such … doubled the share of women in treated firms. Importantly, we find that these short-term effects persisted for at least three …

This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women … in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors … retirement of Arab women from the labour market. We find that all four of these factors affect the probability of Palestinian …

family policies on women's careers and children's wellbeing. There is to date little or no evidence of beneficial effects of …

areas in April-August 2020 by 7% overall and by 74% for rural women, over baseline employment rate. These cushioning effects … strengthened as the mobility restrictions eased and were larger for women who were less mobile and less skilled. Our results …